Improvement in dinner-boxes



l. S. DAVIS.

Dinner-Box.

Patened Sept. 14, 187.5.

PETERS. PHOTO-LITHOGRAPHER. WASHINGTON. D C.

f UNI'I'EEl STATES PATENT OFFICE.'

JAMES S. DAVIS, OF MONROE, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND GEORGE R.HURD, OF SAME PLAGE.

IMPROVEMENT IN DINNER-BOXES.

Specication forming part of Letters Patent No.167,648, dated September14, 1875; application led July 10, 1875.

at one side between suitable partitions, and a' coffee or tea holder,connected to the front by slides, in such manner as to fasten thedrawers in the case.

Figure 1 is a sectional elevation of the boX, taken on the line a: x,Fig. 2; and Fig.2 is a horizontal section, taken on the line y y, Fig.1.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

'A is the oase; B, the drawers for the solid food; C, the partitionsbetween the drawers;

and D the tea and coffee can, which is connected to the front of the`oase by the sliding of the grooved clips E down onthe ribs F in frontofthe drawers, so as to secure them in and it is widened at A for thehandles of the drawers.

Having thus described my inVention,Iclaim as new and desire to secure byLetters Pat-- The combination of the can D with the case A and drawersB, the said can being fitted to slide in the case and secure thedrawers, substantially as specified.

JAMES S. DAVIS. Witnesses: GEORGE GALE,

CHAELEs GALE.

